Jingletown will be featured in this years Oakland Earth Day clean up!!!!
Lets all show up and show our city what we do.

We are in need of people with trucks that can help haul collected debris to the dumpsters.
Depending on how many neighbors show up; we would like to clean plant debris along 29th Ave, Clean trash in the Public Shore rocks, Clean up dog ‘poo’, trash and sweep behind the White Elephant, Clean under the freeway and of course pick up trash along all the streets here. We will have some gloves and tools but you may want to bring your own.
For those who don’t want to do much walking, we will need help weeding and replacing the fence at the Art Wall, help with sign in, tool inventory and setting up for the bbq after the clean. Pre Earth Day, we could use shoppers to get bbq items. I have one BBQ can anyone else bring one?

This Sunday, special for Jingletown members, sug. donation is only $20 – includes gourmet small plates by Kevin Warren and beverage of choice (wine, water, juice) – Reserve your space by calling (510) 534-6163 or there’s a link on my website to pay through paypal CLICK HERE To hear Frank’s music

Located at Waterpark Lofts on the banks of the Oakland/Alameda Estuary, just next to the Park Street Bridge.

From North/SF:

880 So. to Alameda/San Jose, take exit 39A toward Fruitvale Ave., at bottom of exit ramp take a right onto Derby Ave which will dead-end at Glascock Street, make a right onto Glascock. Go to end of Glascock where it connects with 29th and park on street (do not turn onto 29th). Waterpark Lofts is the small complex of lofts next to the large private parking lot. Enter through pedestrian gate and walk through breezeway. #109 is to the right of the wooden stairs.

From South:

880 No. Take exit 39A for 29th Ave. toward Fruitvale/Patten University. Turn right on E 9th Street. Take first right onto Del Monte (under overpass) and another right coming out of the overpass onto Elmwood. At the stop sign make a left onto Derby (be careful here as cars will be exiting the freeway). Derby Ave will dead-end at Glascock Street, make a right onto Glascock. Go to end of Glascock where it connects with 29th and park on street (do not turn onto 29th). Waterpark Lofts is the small complex of lofts next to the large private parking lot. Enter through pedestrian gate and walk through breezeway. #109 is to the right of the wooden stairs.

Please join the Friends of Sausal Creek (FOSC) this Wednesday night for a presentation on “Peregrine Falcons: Population Recovery and Beyond” from 7-9 p.m. at Dimond Library, 3565 Fruitvale Avenue, Oakland. Learn about peregrine falcon population recovery efforts from bird bander and conservation biologist Glenn R. Stewart, director of the University of California Santa Cruz Predatory Bird Research Group. Glenn will describe the techniques used by the Predatory Bird Research Group to achieve the peregrine falcon population recovery, discuss current studies of the recovered population that foster conservation education, and make specific comments about the Sausal Creek Watershed peregrine falcons that nest at the Fruitvale Bridge. He will be accompanied by a live peregrine falcon. All are welcome!
By Mariah Carle
Wednesday March 21 2012

This year marks the thirtieth anniversary of the first live-work building for artists in Oakland’s Jingletown Community. 10 Connect, an exhibition at Gray Loft Gallery, shows the remarkable work of ten artists who helped pave the way for a distinctive, flourishing arts community. The artists featured in 10 Connect – all women – have all been or currently are residents of the original building.

In addition to carving physical spaces in which to work, artist communities forge relationships that encourage the commitment needed to make art. The artists showcased in 10 Connect bring to the exhibition three decades of this type of shared support, while maintaining a diversity of style, medium and philosophy. The group participates in informal critiques and discussions that afford the opportunity for each artist to not only develop her unique visual language, but also allay feelings of isolation correlated (by virtue of the solitude necessary to work) with being an artist. 10 Connect will therefore examine how enduring friendships shape creative practice and determine both the physical and abstract places where artwork finds home. Further, 10 Connect investigates an ongoing, intellectual sense of place and explores how these friendships inform the work of these women artists.

While each artist is accomplished in her own right and works from an individual identity, 10 Connect will speak to the significant role that the renowned Jingletown Community has had on these ten artists living and working in the Bay Area. This group show will include work from: